The survey found that only 51% of people trust information provided by search engines, down from 62% in 2006. Google, as the most popular search engine in most of the world, isn’t trusted by nearly half (49%) of the people who use it.

How can people be so cynical – that result for shady SEO’s creating spammy affiliate site typosquatting a premium brand is part of Google Goodness (remember no hand edits)

The Internet is perceived by users to be a more important source of information for them — this over all other principal media, including television, radio, newspapers, and books.

So over half of all people really distrust media in general. This is a healthy dose of skepticism, but why do people still fall for politicians’ ‘promises’ and still buy all the questionable products advertised?

Results from the USC study:

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